matters, then it is necessary to achieve the fastest possible conduct of work, under no circumstances to be stingy with the necessary gold assignations, and to establish special supervision to ensure that the procurement of necessary equipment from abroad (diamond-drill, boring, etc.) be carried out with maximum speed. I am very much afraid that this matter will be conducted without sufficient energy. Yet, according to both Kzhizhanovskii and Martens, we have here what is almost certainly an unprecedented wealth in the world, which is capable of revolutionizing the entire matter of metallurgy*.

Lenin

Dictated by telephone

April 5, 1922

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First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Reproduced from the typescript